Would you still kill and eat vegetables if you could hear their pathetic screams?!
Answers: I'm asking this on behalf of a strict vegan colleague. Personally I love vegetables and don't believe they feel pain.
and extactly who is this "strict vegan colleague"? Are you sure she is not just joking with you?
edit:- well, I am vegan, and if she is a vegan that does not eat veggies or fruit, then how is she still a alive? - I am not doubting you. I just think she is full of it!
Have you told her that veggies do not have a brian, so they do not feel pain.
No brain = no pain!
Vegetables have no nerve endings, therefore, feel no pain.
They would be killed by farmers, not me. I would just buy them like meat. I'm assuming that orchards and gardens would soon become the targets of many boycots against cruelty to vegetables...
ye! slaughter a cabbage lol!
Rip 'em out of the ground, skin 'em, mash 'em. Little buggers.
As opposed to killing them, hearing them scream, feeding thousands of their dead bodies to animals, then killing the animals as well? Sure. Take out the middle-man.
no. i wouldnt. but it cant possibly happen so im happy to eat my veg
Yes. It is indeed a moot point though.
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no poin with veggies.
Mmm....and this 'vegan colleague' of yours...she doesn't eat vegetables,. or fruit? No? Or meat, or animal products?
And I have never heard of any variety of strawberry which requires 'plucking from the ground', as they grow on 'shoots' on the plant, not the roots! lol
Very odd question!
EDIT:'Nothing that casts a shadow'? I can't think of a single thing that she can eat then! lol
Ah, this reminds me of ann Arrogant Worms song 'Carrot juice is murder' . PLants do not have a heart beat, so I feel thta they have no pain. If I couldn't eat veggies, what would I eat?
Probably wouldn't eat the one that's screaming at me haha that's a little scary umm, I'm okay with eating food...errr...im sure the vegtable would eat me if it had to. haha im making no sense. im sorry but this is a silly question. just eat what you want.
Plants are alive but they have no nervous system and no brain so they are incapable of feeling pain or fear as animals do.
If your serious about your friend then she has some serious issues.Don't get me wrong I don't think people should kill plants for fun as they deserve respect but killing them to eat is not in the same league cruelty wise as killing animals.
Whether plants feel pain is not the point. The fact is we kill them when we eat them. KILL!!
Plants don't have a nervous system, so they don't feel pain. If you take a tomato off of a tomato plant, more will grow. If you don't pick them, they'll eventually just fall off of the plant anyway.
Oh bull crap. So, you're friend doesn't eat anything? What a load.
Yeah, strawberries aren't a root crop either, and you don't pluck them from the earth. What a stupid lie.
I suppose in that situation I would have to resort to eating a sentiment being, if that's what plants were. I mean it's either eat or die. I know which I would choose.
However, we know that animals feel pain. They have nerves and they suffer just like we do. We don't need to eat them, we have an alternative- plants- which is great.
Yes. Although it'd be quite strange to hear screams coming from something that has no nervous system.
What does she eat?
O no!
What are we going to eat now!
I'm so confused about life!
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Yes, but it would change the way I harvest them. I would make their death as fast and painless as possible like I do when I shoot deer.
your friend sounds like a troubled soul. pathetic screams....lol.
I don't think I would. But I do know I'd call my psychiatrist and ask for a stronger medication.
if she dont eat meat or veg what does she live on